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CLAUDIA SARNEWaterTower Music (digital)19 tracks – 49:43 After being teased in last year’s Superman reboot, Milly Alcock (House of the Dragon) takes flight in this latest Supergirl outing. Whereas Kara Zor-El spent the 1984 film searching for a mysterious artifact, this incarnation is driven by revenge. Directed by Craig Gillespie (I, Tonya, Cruella), the film opened at the e...

JERRY GOLDSMITH, ALEXANDER COURAGEIntrada 534Disc One: 29 tracks – 69:04Disc Two: 26 tracks – 71:43 One of Jerry Goldsmith’s finest mid-1980s scores, Explorers (1985) returns to CD from Intrada following the label’s earlier 2011 edition. This new release expands the complete film score while retaining the original MCA soundtrack album, effectively doubling the amount of music...

DANIEL HARTA24 Music (digital)11 tracks – 41:03  As a recovering high school orchestra kid, I’m biased toward orchestral film scores. Sure, my palate broadened with time, but I still swoon for that classical sound piped through stereo speakers. For that reason, Daniel Hart’s score for Mother Mary, composed with input from Hart’s longtime collaborators Bobak Lotfipour and Jina...

JIM GHEDIA24 Music (digital)14 tracks – 47:51 A lifetime of fighting has taken its toll on Robin Hood (Hugh Jackman), who is brutally felled in battle before finding possible salvation in a mysterious woman (Jodie Comer). One of the summer’s more ambitious releases, The Death of Robin Hood offers a revisionist take on the legendary outlaw. The film also marks the feature scor...